The pro-GM lobby has sought to take the 'scientific high-ground' by positioning itself as the voice of reason and progress, while painting its opponents as unsophisticated 'anti-science' luddites. In a scathing response Peter Melchett turns the tables
The GM lobby and its 'seven sins against science' Peter Melchett | 31st December 2012 News Gm Food And Farming News Science gmo.jpg The pro-GM lobby has sought to take the 'scientific high-ground' by …
Despite promising the world in 2009, biotech corporations have increasingly raised the hackles of scientists and citizens worldwide
Was 2009 the year the world turned against GM? Claire Robinson Jonathan Matthews | 11th January 2010 Comment Food And Farming Science And Technology Gm Genetic Modification squarefruit.jpg Despite …
As the people of Argentina are driven by economic collapse to the point of starvation, a new solution is being imposed upon them. Ben Backwell reports on a country being force fed genetically modified soya designed not for humans, but for cattle
Soya Republic Ben Backwell | 1st February 2003 News Gm Soya Argentina Genetically Modified Biotech Agribusiness Biotechnology Agribusiness Soya Biotechnology Gm Products Soya Farming Organics …
Supermarkets have been accused of misleading consumers by not labelling food produced from genetically modified crops.
Supermarkets caught up in GM label row 19th November 2007 News Gm Soil Association Food Organics Agribusiness Gm Products Food And Farming Science And Technology News web pic 2_18.jpg Supermarkets …
The man on the phone said he was from the BBC. They were interested in interviewing me about my alleged involvement in crimes against humanity.
The great GM miracle? Jonathan Matthews | 23rd January 2008 News Gm BBC Costing The Earth Gm Products Biotechnology Food And Farming Science And Technology investigates.jpg The man on the phone said …
Andres Carrasco's research linking a controversial herbicide with birth defects highlighted the potential health dangers posed by GM crop-spraying in Argentina – and led to violence and intimidation for those behind the study
Revealed: the glyphosate research the GM soy lobby doesn't want you to read Claire Robinson | 24th November 2010 Comment Gm Comment Food And Farming Soy Crops Glyphosate Gm Watch Agribusiness Animal …
Much of our meat and dairy produce is made from animals raised on GM feeds. Alarming new claims suggest that the GM diet is affecting animal health - prompting fears over human safety. Andrew Wasley reports ...
… 2013 News Gm Animal Health GMOs Food Farming Investigations News Food Safety Livestock … Sarah Stirk & Louisa Michel Andrew Wasley is investigations editor of The Ecologist and the …
It was a bad year for the biotech barons. At a conference in January 1999, the consulting firm Arthur Andersen revealed Monsanto executives’ vision of an ideal future – a world in which natural seeds were virtually all extinct and where commercial seeds were genetically modified (GM) and patented.
The battle to keep GM food off your plate Jeffrey Smith | 1st November 2007 News Gm US UK Arpad Pusztai Gm Products Campaigns Gm Products UK US Food And Farming Politics And Economics …
A pioneering campaign is challenging industrial agriculture in Africa, returning food sovereignty to the people and empowering women to lead a new movement that rejects the 'pesticide and loan culture' of the first Green Revolution. Chris Milton reports
… Industrial Farming Pesticides Fertilisers Investigations istock_000016426956small.jpg A …
BBSRC-funded website backlash against sustainable watchdog’s call to reduce meat consumption
Biotech industry fights back over reduced meat calls The Ecologist | 11th December 2009 News Food And Farming Biotech Gm Biotechnology Diet Health Consumption meat.jpg The SDC report argues that …
The GM public debate, which runs throughout June and July, is the public’s chance to express any concerns it may have over the growing of GM crops in Britain. Andy Rowell explains why your participation is vital
Debate, What Debate? Andy Rowell | 1st July 2003 News Gm GM Crops Public Participation Industrial Farming Gm Products UK Community Food Chain Biotechnology Biotechnology Food And Farming Health …
Ecological campaigner Million Belay talks about why protecting Ethiopia's biodiversity is so important and why he opposes the intervention of philanthropists like Bill Gates
Million Belay: Ethiopia doesn’t need or want Bill Gates Tom Levitt | 16th November 2009 Comment Gm Genetic Modification Food And Farming Culture millionbelay2.jpg A generation of Ethiopians are …
For 40 years Percy Schmeiser grew oilseed rape on his farm in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Usually, he would sow each year’s crop with seeds saved from the previous harvest. In 1998 Monsanto took Schmeiser to court.
Percy Schmeiser: the man that took on Monsanto Edward Goldsmith | 1st May 2004 News Monsanto Gm Seeds Canada Oilseed Rape Canola Crops Harvests Farming Legal Precedents GM Cases Action Agribusiness …
In his final State of the Union address, George Bush announced his support for the adoption of biofuels on a massive scale. But is the plan such a good idea? By Pat Thomas
Biofuels Report: Introduction Pat Thomas | 1st March 2007 News Biofuels Farming Gm Transport Politics Lobbying Biofuel Agribusiness Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate Change Oil Gm Products UK US …
Campaigners in India are facing charges including trespassing and criminal intimidation following a protest last month against genetically modified rice being trialled by Bayer BioScience
… in India The Ecologist | 13th July 2009 News Investigations Food And Farming Bayer Gm India …
A consultation by the Welsh Assembly Government proposes more stringent measures to protect Wales's farmers from the threat of cross-contamination by GM crops
… laws The Ecologist | 7th July 2009 News Investigations Food And Farming Green Living …
In August 2006, German chemicals company BASF applied to start GM potato field trials
in Cambridge and Derbyshire as early as next spring. The GM industry is making many
claims about this product, but are these based on the truth? Andy Rees investigates
The great GM debate is a complex one. Professor Guy Cook examines the ways in which the issue is often tackled - verbally that is.
The language of the GM technology debate Prof Guy Cook | 1st October 2008 News Gm Guy Cook Debates Lord May Public Opinion Science Religion Biotechnology Gm Products Food And Health Biodynamics …
The promise of more food from increased yields is driving the appeal for more GM crops, but that promise is theoretical and unfulfilled, argue Dr Ricarda A Steinbrecher and Antje Lorch
Feed the world? Dr Ricarda A Steinbrecher Antje Lorch | 1st November 2008 News Gm Focus Yields Yield Gm Crops Cultivation Biotechnology Food And Farming Science And Technology GM_Yield_MAIN.jpg The …
Global banks, investment houses and pension funds are gobbling up farmland in poor countries for food and biofuels production. GRAIN, winners of the 2011 Right Livelihood Award, says this secretive and unjust practice needs to stop
How global finance fuels a secretive and unethical land grab in Africa Henk Hobbelink | 9th December 2011 Activism Food And Farming Indigenous People Via Campesina Land Grab Food Speculation Gm …
Argentinean academic and activist Raul Montenegro on why indigenous people hold the keys to survival, why GM technologies only profit big business and how nuclear power ignores the rights of future generations
Alternative Nobel Prize winner Raul Montenegro: ‘Nuclear energy is a nonsense technology’ Kara Moses | 5th November 2010 Comment Nuclear Gm Natural World Agriculture Food And Farming Population …
All sectors must play their part in a global emissions deal, but could including agriculture in the mix lead to an intensification of farming and money for GM crops?
Copenhagen could lead to increase in intensive farming Ed Hamer | 14th December 2009 News Copenhagen Food And Farming Climate Change COP15 Gm Soil Carbon cornstubble.jpg All sectors must play their …
The Government should push ahead with nuclear power and GM technology, according to the UK’s chief scientist.
Government’s chief scientist calls for nuclear power and GM 28th November 2007 News Gm Nuclear David King Gm Products Natural World Energy Politics And Economics News web pic 2_51.jpg The Government …